Podcasts

Dawn Thomas and Eric Trabert discuss the U.S. response to the Coronavirus in the 100 days since the
outbreak. Including what we've done well, what we've done poorly and what we are likely to see in the next 100 days.
Eric Trabert serves as Director and Chief Scientist of the Center for Public Health Preparedness and Resilience. He
is an expert in all-hazards preparedness with a focus on medical surge and mass casualty incident response. Dawn
Thomas is the Co-Director of CNA's Center for Emergency Management Operations. In 14 years at CNA, Thomas has worked
with a large array of emergency preparedness issues, helping state, local, regional, and federal entities prepare
for and respond to public health outbreaks (human and animal).

Special Guest Doug Selvage of the Humboldt University in Berlin and returning guest Kasey Stricklin,
join Bill to discuss the how the Soviet Union and Russian Federation craft disinformation campaigns around
pandemics. Douglas Selvage is a Senior Research Associate (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Institute of
History of the Philosophical Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Kasey Stricklin is a research analyst
with CNA's Adversary Analytics team, where she is a member of the Russia Studies Program. Her research
specialization is the psychological side of information warfare, including disinformation and propaganda.

CNA experts Joel Silverman, Dawn Thomas and Eric Trabert discuss two areas of the COVID-19 recovery. How
organizations can prepare for employees headed back to work and what guidance should be provided about the
possibility of a second wave of COVID-19. Eric Trabert serves as Director and Chief Scientist of the Center for
Public Health Preparedness and Resilience. He is an expert in all-hazards preparedness with a focus on medical surge
and mass casualty incident response. Dawn Thomas is the Co-Director of CNA’s Center for Emergency Management
Operations. In 14 years at CNA, Thomas has worked with a large array of emergency preparedness issues, helping
state, local, regional, and federal entities prepare for and respond to public health outbreaks. Joel Silverman is a
Senior Research Scientist for CNA’s Center for Critical Incident Analysis. Dr. Silverman has designed, facilitated,
and/or evaluated over 60 emergency preparedness exercises in the fields of public health and medical operations,
climate change, and animal disease response.

Following the spread of COVID-19 on the USS Theodore Roosevelt, CNA Naval Historian Steve Wills joins
Josh Tallis to discuss the history of disease on navy vessels. Joshua Tallis is a Research Scientist specializing in
maritime security, irregular threats, and issues of naval and national security strategy. Josh also served as the
CNA field representative to Carrier Strike Group EIGHT during the Navy's first instantiation of Dynamic Force
Employment in the High North. Lt. Cdr. Steven Wills served 20 years as an active duty U.S. Navy officer, Wills
served on a variety of small and medium surface combatants, including an assignment as the executive officer of a
mine countermeasures ship.

Eric Trabert and Amanda Kerrigan sit down to discuss lessons from past
outbreaks like Ebola and H1N1 that can help us counter COVID-19. Eric Trabert
serves as Director and Chief Scientist of the Center for Public Health
Preparedness and Resilience. He is an expert in all-hazards preparedness with
a focus on medical surge and mass casualty incident response. Amanda
Kerrigan is a Research Analyst at CNA in the China Studies division. She has
over a decade of China-related experience, living four of those years between
Mainland China and Taiwan.

The spread of COVID-19 across the world is redefining the political and economic realities of every
country on the planet. Every day sees scores of articles detailing how governments and populations are coping with
the challenge. Yet when it comes to COVID-19 in North Korea, the Hermit Kingdom remains as difficult to read as
ever.

In February 2006, CNA convened a conference of public health and government officials, medical experts and regional
specialists to discuss the science and politics of pandemics, particularly as pertains to Asia. Two public health crises tied to Asia provided the impetus for hosting the event.

As the new coronavirus continues its march across the world, journalists and
researchers have already debunked a number of false stories, but many more
are likely to appear as the battle against the virus rages on. The term
“infodemic” has caught on as a reference to the whirlwind of disinformation
around COVID-19. While these stories have come from a variety of sources,
Russian media and online trolls have been some of the most pernicious
propagators.

On Wednesday, March 18, President Trump announced that Military Sealift
Command's two hospital ships, USNS Comfort and Mercy, would join the
response to COVID-19 by deploying to the West Coast and to New York City,
respectively. The ships, emblazoned with large red crosses, vividly represent an
accelerating mobilization against the ongoing pandemic. Moreover, even as
public trust in institutions declines, the ships' deployments visibly connect one
of the country's most well respected institutions — the military — to a
contingency response that has struggled to soothe national anxieties.

An international effort is underway to halt the spread of a novel coronavirus,
known as 2019-nCoV. The World Health Organization, Chinese health
authorities, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are all
critical to this effort. However, CNA's Center for Public Health Preparedness
and Resilience has also learned from 20 years of experience evaluating
responses to public health emergencies that in addition to thinking globally, it
is essential to coordinate locally.